File-less malwares: what and how
What are file-less malwares? How do they work on linux? According to Wikipedia, file-less malware is a variant of computer related malicious software that exists exclusively as a computer memory-based artifact i.e. in RAM. In other words, the malware/program is never written to harddisk but directly loaded in memory. To get a better understanding of how that happens in linux, we need to understand how a normal program loads itself into memory and executes itself....